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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 319 WILSON", HON. WALTER HORATIO, of Wilcelyn, Toowong, and of Wilcelyn-on-Sea, Redcliffe, Queensland, member of the Legislative Council of Queensland, and postmaster-general in Sir S. W. Griffith's ministry ; b. at Rhos-y-Medre, Ruabon, co. Denbigh, Wales, I5th July, 1839 ; m. at St. Kilda, Victoria, 18th April, 1862, Elizabeth Hannah, daughter of William Field, Esq. of Teignmouth, co. Devon, England, and by her (who d. at Toowong, 3rd February, 1886) has had issue, I. Walter Frederick, of Rhos-y-Medre, Toowong, Queensland, B.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, and barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, London; h. at Melbourne, Victoria, 31st January, 1863; wi. 30th November, 1886, Ada Ethel, fourth daughter of Mr. Justice Harding, of St. John's Wood, Brisbane, Queensland, and has issue, a daughter, Ethel May, b. 3rd September, 1887. I. Elizabeth Beatrice Lilian, b. at Sherwood Grove, Toowong, Queensland, 10th April, 1875. Mr. Wilson arrived in Victoria, 1853, and proceeded to the colony of Queensland in 1865, when he was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court. He was sometime a councillor for the shire of Toowong, and for four years an active member of the committee of the Brisbane hospital ; he was appointed to a seat in the Legislative Council, 1st July, 1885. Htnmae. This family was originally resident on the borders of England and Scotland, north of the Tweed, and settled in Yorkshire at the beginning of the present century, whence they removed to Baron's Cross, Hereford- shire, and subsequently to Plas Kynaston, co. Denbigh, Wales. Benjamin Feedeeick Wilson, Esq. of Plas Kynaston, Ehos-y-Medre, Euabon, co. Denbigh, was father of the Hon. Walter Horatio Wilson, and d. at Melbourne. Crest used — A demi wolf, per fesse erm. and erminois. Motto — Facta nan verba. Badge — An acorn. Residences — Wilcelyn, Toowong ; and Wilcelyn-ou-Sea, Eedcliffe, Queensland. WILSON, HON. ANDREW HERON, of Doon Villa, Maryborough, Queensland, elected a member of the Legislative Council of Queens- land in 1883 ; b. August, 1844, at Ayr, Scotland ; m. at Cunning Park, Ayr, Miss Jessie. Adam, of Fairhome, Ayr, but has no issue. He arrived in the colony of Queensland early in 1864, and in 1866 started the Maryborough saw and planing mills, now known as the Wilson, Hart & Co.'s saw-mills. His father, Andrew Wilson, Esq. of Ayr, Scotland, m. Jean Heron, of the same place. Crest used — A lion ramp. Motto — Semper vigilans. Residence — Doon Villa, Maryborough, Queensland. ,